Monday, 7 January 2019

The Conviction.

श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता अध्याय 3 श्लोक 3 :
लोकेऽस्मिन्द्विविधा निष्ठा पुरा प्रोक्ता मयानघ।
ज्ञानयोगेन साङ्ख्यानां कर्मयोगेन योगिनाम्।
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Gita stanza 3, chapter 3 :
loke'smindwiwidhAniShThA  purA proktA mayAnagha.
jnAnayogena sangkhyAnAM karmayogena yoginAM.
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Meaning :
O Arjuna! In this world people have two types of conviction
(belief spontaneous and inherent).
The first is the natural instinctive that is a tendency of going again and through the experience of Food, Sleep, Fear and Sex. Man and animals alike go through these 4 activities and at a time one of the 4, dominates the rest 3. So by very nature, one keeps revolving in this cycle of going repeatedly, though not in a fixed order, through them.
When the hunger and the thirst dominates one tries to find food, when one has ate enough, one is satiated and stops eating. When sleep dominates, one goes to sleep and forgets all about the other 3; namely food, fear and sex, likewise, when the fear dominates, one forgets the other three; viz. sleep, food and sex. The same is true when one is overpowered by a craving / longing for sex.
But as one grows up in life, one gradually feels the absurdity or futility of keeping repeatedly like an animal through these 4 activities. Only a few come to see this simple fact of life and begin to question then about the meaning of life / living itself. No, -not the goal or purpose, but the meaning of passing through these activities again and again.
Then there is uncertainty / fear and hope for the future that is ever so unknown.
So one has to go through 'karma' that is action of a kind. Lucidly, -breathing and sleeping too are kind of 'karma' and one can't stop 'karma' altogether though one could feel one has the choice of action. To do this or that. So one projects / puts a goal, a purpose in the near or distant future and thinks of attaining the same one fine day.
But a rare one has the urge and earnestness to seek that this is not a wise way of living the life and ultimately and inevitably die some-day,without getting to know what is beyond death.
Fear or curiosity or a great urge to know it one may ponder over again what is 'life' and exactly 'who' / 'what' is ONE, who lives the life.
One may think out carefully in terms of the concept of 'karma' and discover in his own way what forces him to engage in 'karma'. Could one stop and stay without 'karma'? And one may think of the fruits of 'karma'; -actions good or evil auspicious or harmful that one may have to experience because of the consequences of those 'karma'; -actions.
Ultimately, one may come up to the conclusion that is suggested in scriptures especially in Vedanta that there is a power 'mAyA' that is responsible for all the 'karma' action that seems to happen here in this world (लोकेऽस्मिन् / loke'smin).
One may imagine / believe that there is a 'God' who controls the lives of all beings, but this imagination / belief itself is a temporary one and soon disappears like many other thoughts.
This could not be made into a firm belief / conviction, how-so-ever hard one may convince oneself.
Again, one may formulate this 'God' into some 'form' and thus invent a 'God' with a 'form' which is again going to fade away ultimately.
So, one may though call oneself theist, atheist or agnostic one never gets rid of the natural conviction 'I am' conviction.
This is the natural and spontaneous conviction of all.
One may then embark upon seeking what this conviction points out at?
In human words this could be again termed as 'consciousness' / awareness of being oneself, or of just being only without attaching a label to this Reality of Being.
One who has understood this state may not express what he has realized, yet has finished all the seeking.
Such a one (Blessed?) is a 'साङ्ख्य-योगी / sAngkhya-yogin.
Yet there are others who walk upon some other path to discover the Reality while performing the usual activities without being involved or indulgence in those activities.
Summarily, they also ultimately reach a state of mind where thus performing selfless work in whatever way they have been given by the providence / destiny unconcerned about the fruits / results those actions bring forth to them.
Such a one is a 'कर्मयोगी' / 'karmayogin'.
Theist, atheist or agnostic, ... whatever one may call to oneself, a believer or a non-believer, one has known and has become one with the Supreme Reality, -ब्रह्म / Brahman or the Self.
This is the Realization and the Conviction Ultimate.
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